[interfacekit] Re: Status Updates

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Though I'm fortunately not assigned to any task in IK context, I've 
> though 
> about implementing a little workaround for a problem with BClipboard 
> and 
> large amounts of data. Currently the clipboard data are sent through 
> ports, 
> which, due to a port message size limit, causes the clipboard to 
> cease to 
> work for data sizes of 2 MB (on R5) and more (easily reproducable 
> when 
> copying a large region in ShowImage).
> 
> My idea to solve this problem is to pass data larger than, say, 64 KB 
> through an area (and leave it like that in the registrar). I'm 
> currently 
> stuffed with work; so, if someone else wants to implement that, I 
> wouldn't 
> mind to hand it over.

I wouldn't spend too much work on that right now, at least don't care 
about all the tiny details - I think this will be made easier in 
OpenBeOS sooner or later (because of a more advanced VM API).

Bye,
   Axel.

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